Horrible Bosses

Absent boss gets backlash for demanding fully remote team to come into the office "5 days a week (8 AM - 5 PM)"

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns after 10 years at the company after expecting salary boost to get him to stay: '[I'm] offended that they didn’t counteroffer when I first presented the resignation'

Ben Weiss

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Kentucky pizzeria threatens 24-year-old prospective business owner with lawsuit over an NDA they signed while working there as their first job at 17-years-old: 'I was 17 and just happy to get the job'

Brad Dickson

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Boss hosts an Employee Appreciation Pizza Party to announce that all raises are postponed, but it backfires as workers realize the irony: 'Why's everybody leaving?'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss enforces "clean desk policy," throws away everything on employees' desks after 6:00 PM: '[My] colleague had a framed photo of her kids taken three times in the same week'

Ben Weiss

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Employee CC's entire 40-person team on every email per his manager's request, clogging everyone's inbox: 'I was just following the policy he set'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns, boss tries to cheap out by offering $20 less per hour than what he's worth to keep him on as a contractor: 'Their offer was not acceptable'

Ben Weiss

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Boss insists employees work from the office all the time without flexible arrangements, but works from home herself halting production while everyone waits for her to show up: 'My first complaint is, if boss isn't there, there's a halt in work'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: Boss fires employee as an April Fools joke, boss gets fired for real when entire team walks out: 'It's April fools! It was a joke! Get back in here!'

Brad Dickson

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Car dealership manager backtracks and says it's a prank after employee quits in response to being told he was fired for refusing to buy a car from the manager: 'I already had a better job that was able to start me immediately'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is told that the promotion she applied for is being dissolved, she gets given the role's responsibilities anyway with no extra pay: 'There’s a pretty significant pay gap between the dissolved role and my current role'

Brad Dickson

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New Manager claims first-come, first-served served employee parking spot, sends email promising to retaliate against and tow any staff who dare park in it, Big Boss forced to intervene and put them in their place: 'That’s my parking spot'

Brad Dickson

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3-year-Veteran Employee gets passed over by New Hire for a promotion they were promised, then has to train her and is still helping her do her job a year later

Brad Dickson

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Employee confronts boss after learning IT is tracking his phone 24/7: 'I am looking for a new job immediately'

Ben Weiss

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28-year-old graphic designer and 5-year company veteran discovers they're making less than 2 college graduate new hires: 'I'm supposed to train people who make more money than me'

Brad Dickson

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Fast-food new-hire finds themselves 30 minutes late for their first shift when the manager forgets to tell them they were hired and scheduled, leading to a tense phone call: 'It's not my responsibility to inform you about your schedule'

Brad Dickson

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